Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELONZO S. WHEELER, OF VVESTPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,78 I dated. January 3, 1865.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELoNzo S. WHEELER,

ofthe town of Westport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttous; and I do hereby declare that the fol lowing isa full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing a button that the same may be attached to the garment or other article for which it is intended without the use of' thread, but by means ot' a rivet or shank and two washers.

Figure 1 represents the button complete ready to be attached to the cloth or other material. Fig. 2 represents the button and the shank or rivet attached, with the washers removed. Fig. 3 represents the front of the button after it has been secured to a piece of cloth. Fig. 4 represents the back part ofthe Washer and shank after the button has been secured to a piece of cloth.

The button shown in the drawings is composed ot' tive parts, the front a.,the back b, the shank or rivet c, and the two washers d and e. The shank or rivet c is made hollow, and'is secured to the back b by havingitsend turned over in form of a flange on the inside of said back b. This rivet or shank can,if desired, be made to pass entirely through the button., and have its ilange turned upon the front of said button or the rivet can be made solid and secured to either the back or front ofthe button. The front and back ofthe button are fastened together in the usual manner. The hollow or solid rivet or shank c can through the cloth or other material to `which the button is to be secured large enough to allow the rivet or shank to pass through it. After the rivet or shankois inserted in the cloth the second washer e is then placed on the rivet or shank c, so that its outer edge shall also press against the cloth upon the side opposite washer d. The end of the shank or rivet c is then pressed down in such a manner as to form a tia-nge on the outside of washer e, and at the same time to press the two washers d and e so tightly together as to hohl the cloth or other material Securely between While the two washers thus hold the button securely to the cloth, it will be observed that the use of the inside washer, d, tends to increase the open space between the back of the button and the cloth.

I am aware that buttons have been attached to cloth by means ot' a solid rivet with a dat head, which rivet passes through the cloth and the button. Buttons have also been attached to cloth by means of headed screws, which pass through the cloth and screw into the button. Buttons thus attached are liable to work loose, and are drawn so close to the cloth as to leave too little space between the cloth and the back. of the button. provenient these objections areremoved, while the button is secured to its place neatly and permanently.

I am aware that buttons have been secured to cloth by means of a hollow shank or tube and a single Washer, so that the cloth would be grasped between the back of the button and said washer, as is shown in the application for a patent of W'illard F. Olives, rejected by the Patent Office November 3, 1859. This I do not claim; but

I claimy The combination of the two washers or disks with the hollow shank and the button, substantially as and for the purposes described.

' ELONZO S. WHEELER.

Witnesses:

E. It. WRIGHT, R. H. WHEELER.

By my im- I 

